Description

ASP.NET Ajax has a great feature that helps make it easy to enable back/forward button and bookmarking support in your Ajax applications. However, most people think you need ASP.NET WebForms
and the ScriptManager control to take advantage of this feature. Furthermore, most people think you actually have to be using ASP.NET to take advantage of these capabilities. You don’t. There’s a walkthrough on MSDN showing how to use this capability purely
from client side JavaScript:

The challenge with MSDN sample is that it leaves the reader to figure out how to accomplish the same thing without ASP.NET WebForms and the ScriptManager control. In this screencast,
Marc takes the guesswork out of it and shows you how implement the sample without the ScriptManager as well as doing it using ASP.NET MVC.